1. Target language 目标语言
重点词汇和短语
tremble, anxious, panic, courage, excited, worried, relieved, terrified, nervous
2. Ability goals 能力目标
Enable the students to learn the ways of expressing fear and anxiety.
3. Learning ability goals 学能目标
Enable the students to describe powerful natural forces that they have experienced and how they felt during and after the disaster.
Teaching important points 教学重点
Ways of expressing fear and anxiety.
Teaching difficult points 教学难点
Enable the students to describe powerful natural forces that they have experienced and how they felt during and after the disaster.
Teaching methods 教学方法
Listening, speaking, discussion and cooperative learning.
Teaching aids 教具准备
A recorder.
Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式
Step I Listening
The students will listen to the volcanologists talk about their most frightening experience. First get the students to describe the three pictures to help them recall the words or expressions they’ve learned about the occupation — volcanologist. Then listen and write their names under the pictures.
T: Do you still remember the work of a volcanologist?
Ss: Yes. He collects information about a volcano to help predict volcano’s eruption.
T: How can they get the information?
S1: They must climb into a live volcano to take the temperature of the boiling rock inside and collect some lava for later study.
T: Excellent! Please turn to page 38. Describe the three pictures with your partners. We’ll ask some of you to describe the pictures in class.
The students work in pairs to describe the pictures. They can turn to the text if they have some difficulty.
T: Who will describe Picture 1?
S2: A helicopter is flying to the volcano, when suddenly the volcano erupts. The ash and boiling rocks rush into the air hundreds of metres high. Luckily, the helicopter is not near the volcano, or it will be melt.
T: Picture 2?
S3: The volcano is erupting. The lava is flowing slowly down the mountain. A volcanologist is collecting lava with a special tool. He wears special clothes. It seems very dangerous to work there.
T: How about Picture 3?
S4: After an eruption, a crater formed. A woman volcanologist is making records and collecting information. She also wears special clothes to protect herself.
T: These pictures are about the most frightening experience of three vocanologists. They tell us their stories. Please listen and write their names under the pictures.
Get the students to listen to the tape for the first time and finish Exercise 1. Then check the answers with he whole class.
Ask the students to read the questions in Exercise 2 before listening. Then play the tape, stop the tape after each person has spoken. Listen to the tape again if the students cannot write down the answers.
T: The volcanologist sound very young. How long has he / she been a volcanologist? Let’s listen to the tape again. Read the questions first and then listen and write down your answers. I’ll stop the tape after each person has spoken. If you have any question, hands up!
Play the tape for the third time. Make sure the students understand the sentences in Exercise 3 and know what they are asked to do.
T: The three vocanologists describe their experiences. Please read the following sentences first. Can you understand all of them?
S5: Can you explain this sentence “I was trembling almost as much as the ground under my feet”?
T: It means “The ground is shaking. I am very nervous so I am shaking, too.” Any other question? Write the name of the person beside the things they said.
The students listen and write down their answers.
